kbennatti

Love this!

My personal experience supports a lot of this. I’ve become more practical and less idealistic with age and that’s mostly been a great thing for me.

See response above. And not just fraud detection. We plan to expand to other areas including credit/bankruptcy, ESG and tracking macro changes and trends

A few reasons but the primary one is impact. Our mission is corporate accountability through information transparency. Once you become a hedge fund your incentives for information dissemination become warped.

We don't sell to filers. Ever. Got to protect against conflicts of interest. That's one of the reasons we don't have a true free version of the product.

That said, we're using language models so replacing words with synonyms won't evade the model as long as its expressing the same thing.

We love footnoted! Michelle Leder of footnoted has been really supportive of our work. She recognizes that it's an important area for tech innovation. footnoted isn't operating right now but when it comes back, we'll support her and collaborate if we can.

We're often compared to AlphaSense, Sentieo and InsiderScore but our product is pretty different. Competitor products focus on sentiment and linguistic metrics or search etc, not on extracting and organizing important textual content.

Yeah, people have been doing sentiment analysis of press releases etc for years now and very few corporates bother trying to use software to test/counteract it

You've hit the nail on the head (mostly)...but I'm going to say no more because its part of our secret sauce

I love that. I agree until the "nothing" bit. Some things do get priced in. You can see specific stocks "react" to news, adjusted for market returns etc. ESG factors do appear to be getting "priced in" as well

Seconding Suhas here. Super rad

So true

It's disclosed in their filings e.g. "Among the vendors were a director of the Company and an entity controlled by such director"

At lot of egregious things are disclosed on page 101 of a filing but they get missed because these filings are so long and deathly boring

Thanks for website edit! Fixed.

We don't rely on XBRL for parsing. It's not very consistent/reliable and its mostly for numeric content. We've definitely considered integrating ratios both into our dashboard. It isn't a current priority because ratios are already well supported elsewhere.

Aw cool! Can I hang out with your Dad? ;) We do pick up on overly promotional/jargon-y language to some extent. For the most part, however, word lists haven't worked for us.

just a sample